Planting Justice is Hiring a Full Time Educator - Apply!

Planting Justice is excited to be searching for a full time food justice educator. Please consider applying and spread the word far and wide. We are accepting applications through March 10th. Here are is another great Bay Area food justice job opening @ city slicker farms:
Executive Director @ City Slicker Farms

February 28th, 2014

Planting Justice Educator

Job Description and Request for Applications

Organizational Background

Planting Justice is a non-profit organization based in Oakland, CA with a mission to democratize access to affordable nutritious food by empowering urban residents with the skills, resources, and knowledge to grow organic food, expand economic opportunities, and ensure environmental sustainability in our neighborhoods. Planting Justice trains and employs people in re-entry, youth in low-income neighborhoods, and other people with barriers to employment to build gardens at the homes of both full-paying clients and subsidized low-income households - including chicken coops, bee hives, rainwater and greywater systems, fruit trees, annual vegetables, edible/medicinal herbs, natural building, and more. Planting Justice also offers ongoing educational programming in food justice, culinary arts, and permaculture design at high schools, apartment complexes, community centers, and prisons in California.

Job Responsibilities

The main responsibility of the Educator position is to develop and coordinate ongoing educational programs using Planting Justice’s curriculum. This currently includes:

- Fremont High School

- McClymonds High School

- Keller Plaza

- Canal Alliance

- Insight Garden Program at San Quentin State Prison

- Stanislaus County Juvenile Detention Center

- El Sobrante Farm and Training Center

- As well as one-day workshops at other high schools, community colleges, and regional conferences

Relevant tasks to successfully carry out these responsibilities are:

- Maintain relationships with each site coordinator (teachers, administrators, etc)

- Recruit student participants at each site and gather emergency contact information and waiver forms